Depending on the near context, new kinds of activities come into the existing filling stations. Sometimes, it’s about a question of lake, a care to reinforce or let to happen ; here it’s a will to let discover a new environment in the city, new animals, new scents.

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ground detoxification by culture of specific trees

an educational action : a farm into the city for children of neighboord’s schools

new animals into the city

concrete re-using as building new type of boundaries
Gabions are boxes made of steel normaly full of stones ; here we re-use the concrete and some stones. Along the time, the wind let some earth and seeds ; the vegetation grows until to hide the structure.

even if we live in town, we can discover a lot of type of nature
What about to work in a garden, to see the growth each morning, to smell the nature while you’re living in the hypercenter.

Isn’t it a new experience ?

Some filling stations will used to create new share gardens. This practice, already widespread in Lyon, isn’t yet installed anywhere in the city. Aware about the importance for everyone to have a direct...

what kind of activities

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Some filling stations will used to create new share gardens.
This practice, already widespread in Lyon, isn’t yet installed anywhere in the city. Aware about the importance for everyone to have a direct and simple connection with the land, the earth, the project introduces this gardening practice in each area without it, and especially near schools - kindergartens, primary and secondary schools. In some case, university has its own share garden.

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Converted filling stations in share gardens, w ill based on a out-of-soil-culture, (not really hydroponics because the culture is still with soil but it’s deconnected with the real land).
Reusing the steel roof of the actual penthouse on the station will let to create one big or many smallest boxes to cultivate.
Those gardens will give an «on the spot» harvest of food. It will developp time after time, more and more in order to reduce the costly and polluting import with our actual way of operating.
This culture of the proximity will have too an educational part as it’s reconciling human with its environment and what their are able to produce.

re-using steel penthouse to build share garden

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periods of cultures in 1 year

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« A garden isn’t neither definitive nor temporary, it is provisional; to work in garden it’s a provisional act. Gardening is built in the precariousness. To work in garden, it’s to forget to do many other things. To work in garden is not serious »

educational activities

The existing buildings on the site are invested to tidy all necessary work tools to cultivate and to do seedings, to open a convenience store, to create an educational space for the near schools. Storage : potatoes 670 kg/m3 carrots 550 kg/m3 onions 650 kg/m3 turnips 600 kg/m3

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re-using existant buildings

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and reinforce citizen actions : local selling for local production

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re-using existant buildings showing another world

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. network

Even if there is still some good days for cars, it seems essential to think about new systems. But it’s not only a question of technology because those new technologies involve new landscape, new rules, new distributions ... a new way of thinking about city territory..

car transportation isn’t dead, but changing

lanscape

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reinforce and create a new deal for ecosystems in city

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third landscape

The Third-Landscape designates the aggregate of all spaces where human abandon landscape evolution to the nature.
It concerns urban wastelands, transition spaces, wildland, moors, but also roadsides, talus ...